Improvement in boots for horses



UNITED` STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH FENNELL, OF CYNTHIANA, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOTS FOR HORSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 133,768, dated December 10, 1872.

Linterference in horses, or to prevent ill consequences when interference or overreaching occurs; and 1t consists in a boot constructed in two parts, connected together' by a iiexible ligature, and arranged ashereinafter described.

In the drawing, Figure'l represents the boot applied to the horses leg, as when in use; Fig. 2 is a back view, andFig. 3 an inside view, of the boot.

Similar letters of reference spending parts.

A is the part of the boot for protecting the first or pastern joint of the 4horses leg. It is formed of leather and clothstitched together with suitable straps B B and buckle for fastening it around the leg, above the joint, as represented in Fig. 1. The leather, or outside portion, is curved or made somewhat concave on the inside so as to 'fit the joint. The inside cloth lining is stitched tightly thereto, and there is a stuiiing of `wool between, making thereby a soft and flexible pad fastened by the straps on the outside of the leg, as-seen in Fig. 1. C represents the indicate correlower portion of the boot, constructed of one or more thicknesses of leather and lined with chamois-skin or other soft material. D D are the straps by which it is fastened to the fetlock. The upper and lower portion are united by the flexible connection E, so that the lateral action of each is free while both are secured to the horses limb. This lower portion of t the boot, in order to it the place intended, ismade somewhat con vex on the inside, or is curved from endto end vertically, as indicated in the drawing.

VWith the boot'thus attached the horse cannot A boot for the pastern-joint and fetlock of horses, constructed in two parts, A and C, united by the ligature E, substantially as shown and described.

JOSEPH FENNELL.

Witnesses CHAs. T. WILsoN, A. FENNELL. 

